General philosophy

General philosophy

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Ontologism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Ideological system that maintains that God and Divine ideas are the first object of our intelligence and that the intuition of God the first act of our intellectual knowledge. Note that Martin ...

Necessitarianism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A metaphysical principle that denies that any facts or events are contingent or indeterminate, from human actions to the laws of physics themselves.

Objectivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

In ethics, the belief that certain acts are objectively right or wrong.

A group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that advocates that there is an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical and is only realised through a ...

Totalitarianism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A typology employed by political scientists to describe modern regimes in which the state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior. Totalitarian regimes mobilise entire ...

Value pluralism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The idea that two or more moral values may be equally ultimate (true), yet in conflict. In addition, it postulates that in many cases, such incompatible values, may be rationally incommensurable. As ...

Utilitarianism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Theory of ethics based on quantitative maximisation of total welfare for a specific population of humans. It is a form of consequentialism. Welfare is generally described hedonistically. ...